HERBY
 LIGHTWALKER

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     There is an unprecedented experiential leap occurring within all life on Earth right now.  This leap is all encompassing. There are no exceptions, including Earth Herself.  Each of us is experiencing this in our own way, one way or another.
     Herby Lightwalker is a short story about a simple frog experiencing this spiraling leap many are calling “The Ascension”.  This ascension process is also known as the quantum leap, the raising of the planetary vibration and consciousness frequency, a paradigm shift, and the Silent Revolution.  The Ascension experience is happening from the inside out. External signs of this inner transformation of life on Earth have been few and far between but seem to be increasing and gaining momentum.  Perhaps this story and other books about personal inner self transformation and self empowerment are the first practical external signs of us all co-creating together?  The first signs of this inner experience of our conscious participation in the creation of life and our own individual truths as experiences of God embodied as Human Beings? 
     This story is not intended to define anyone’s experience, rather to provide a space “between the lines” for insight and wisdom to emerge about the fact that this inner transformation, this silent revolution in Self Awareness, IS happening – perhaps even within you, or someone close to you?
    It’s a story for all ages, all peoples, just as this unprecedented experiential leap is effecting every human being, regardless of age, ethnic origin, nationality, religious affiliation, economic or social status - each in his/her own way, according to free will choices made. 
    This experiential leap is founded on a consistent Choice between Love of Life, or Fear of Life.  Fundamentally it’s about choosing to experience the higher, lighter, joyful, unconditional loving, happiness frequency with its happy, smiley, all-respectful diversity and optimism - as the basis for your life and all the decisions and choices you make each day, moment by moment – rather than the dense lower frequency of Fear, and its associated experiences of pessimism, cynicism, prejudice, intolerance.

Jaiann
August 2005








Soon Herby could see nothing but these tall spiked plants and couldn’t even see, or remember, the lily pad anymore. All the green seemed to meld together and the little froggie forgot about being Herby Froggie and identified solely with the tall green stuff growing all around.

Soon the froggie felt trapped with nowhere to jump to anymore. Then the froggie forgot how to jump. Where would froggie jump to anyway? Soon the froggie knew only to think - and grow more of all the tall green stuff all around.

One day all the tall green stuff blocked out the sun and then all seemed dark and shadowy. Herby Froggie felt All Alone. All there was were thoughts and the tall green stuff growing all around. The froggie adapted and became very secure and comfortable in this self-made, self protective, shadowy Froggie World. This never-ending thinking and tall greenery was Froggie Home now. This was a Frog’s Life.

Or is it?

What else is there?

Is Herby Froggie still a froggie?

Or is Froggie an Herb now?

Does it matter?


HAVE YOU KISSED YOUR INNER FROGGIE TODAY?
(the inner parts of you & others which you may judge, criticize & otherwise don’t like very much)




In Chapter One we watched Herby Frog-ivorce from the Original Frog World. Herby has separated himself from his Original Self. By simply thinking and letting his thoughts limit his world, he now experiences a different kind of home, lifestyle and identity.

A lot of Froggie Time has passed now as we enter into Chapter Two of this Journey. Herby is no longer aware of being on a smooth lily pad resting lightly upon gently moving pond water. He is not even aware there is a pond anymore. No longer does he  ker-plop into the silky smooth rich waters of the pond for a divine swim, stretching his lovely, sleek froggie leggies. No longer does he  ker-plop into these divine warm waters and swim in search of discovering some new delicious bug to add variety to his diet. Herby Froggie simply eats what is in front of him; the leaves of his own self created tall plants, and maybe occasionally whatever little bug might happen to crawl by. He feeds upon his own thoughts.

Buzz, Buzzzz…Buzzzz…. Now, one day a buzzy Busy Bumble Bee just happens to drop into Herby Froggie’s World. There is something vaguely familiar to Herby about this buzzy bumble bee, but our froggie doesn’t remember what this is. “Hey there, Froggie, what are you doing in here all by yourself?” asks Busy Bumble Bee. “Thinking,” answers Herby. “What’s thinking?” asks Busy Bumble Bee. “I don’t know”, said Froggie. “Then why are you doing this thinking thing?” asks Busy Bumble Bee. “It’s all I know to do,” said Froggie. “Well that’s silly!” says Busy Bumble Bee. By now Herby Froggie is very annoyed at this disruption to his own thinking world. He feels angry and tells Busy Bumble Bee to “Go away!” Bumble Bee feels this anger and asks Froggie, “Sure, but how do I get out of here?” Froggie says “I don’t know, just go out the way you came in!” Busy Bumble Bee tries to find his way out of the tightly closed-in thicket of green stuff and gets very frustrated. He does what all bumble bees do when they feel trapped and frustrated, he begins to sting everything he touches! He stung Herby Froggie. “Ouch!” Says Herby Froggie, “Get out of here NOW!” Busy Bumble Bee lands on a tall plant and begins to crawl up hoping this is a way out.

Very soon Froggie feels a pain where he got stung and begins to think about it. And think and think and think some more about it. The more he thinks about it, the more it hurts and the bigger the sting gets! Just like all the plants grew bigger and thicker the more he thought about things. Soon the sting is swollen and hurts even more and Herby thinks about it more and more until he’s not thinking about anything else at all. Soon Herby is more than hurting. He is suffering.

After a long while of this and thinking only about his hurt and suffering, Froggie begins to think that this is all there has ever been, this suffering. Soon he starts thinking and wondering about what has made him hurt and suffer? After thinking and thinking and thinking for a long Froggie Time about what has made him suffer, he still hasn’t come up with anything that is familiar to him. Herby Froggie wants to name this something so unfamiliar that he cannot define it, this powerful thing causing him so much pain and suffering. But he doesn’t know what to call it, so, he just makes up a word and calls it “Froggod”.




Our Herby is still suffering and thinking and thinking about suffering. He is also expanding his Froggie World to include thinking about how this suffering is caused by something outside himself, isn’t he? Ah, and so, the water plants are growing taller, thicker and spreading wider than ever, blocking more Light than ever from his world.

For, you see, don’t you, that now he is thinking about his self created external “God”, created in his own image,  and how this power outside himself is to blame for his suffering?  And do you see that this is another part of himself he has created to keep himself company? “What have I done to deserve this punishment, this pain and suffering?” he asks of his new companion, the Froggod.

Ahh, by now Herby is beginning to feel completely powerless. He even begins to feel this suffering as Fear for the first time! He is afraid he is being punished for something he has no control over! He doesn’t know what he has done wrong to bring such suffering and punishment. There sure must be something very wrong with him, he thinks.  Herby has created judgment! He is not only judging himself for doing something wrong, he is judging himself for being powerless and is judging his Froggod as punishing him for doing something wrong! This thinking is making his suffering deeper and more painful for he has accepted pain and suffering and even his thoughts as something much more powerful than himself!

One day, after more Froggie Time has passed, our Herby, feeling completely helpless, and hopeless, says to himself, “Dear Froggod, what can I DO to stop hurting, to make this suffering go away?” He repeats this over and over to himself, like a Mantra. Herby Froggie has now invented prayer! He thinks and thinks, prays and prays every day.

He has created his Froggod in his own image and experiences, for what else is there for Herby to create a God from but his own thoughts and feelings? He is now even talking to the part of himself he calls Froggod.

Ahh, so now, Herby has his thoughts - his tall water plants, his pain and suffering, his fears, his judgments, his prayers, and his Froggod to keep him company! He now feels a sort of safety, security and comfort in his self created Froggie World - this home he has decorated all by himself in his own image! This is the only home he experiences now. His own Froggie World has become very thick, dense, and comfortable indeed.

It seems perhaps Herby has all that he needs, or does he?

What else could any self-respecting Froggie want or even expect to have out of life, other than to be able to think so well, to have such knowledge, safety, security and comfort and to be able to pray to his Froggod?

Is Herby Froggie a unique froggie with some purpose for his experiences? A purpose he’s kept hidden even from himself?





Herby is comfortable in his own way in his own self protective, shadowy world. Yet still, he thinks and thinks about all he knows, and prays and prays to his Froggod everyday.  He feels some comfort in this ritual of praying and that it might make him a better froggie and relieve at least some of the suffering and punishment he is experiencing.

Herby Froggie is feeling pretty low and very sad sometimes. He loves to think and now even loves to pray. Praying especially seems to make him feel better, even good sometimes! Yet, the suffering remains. So does the fear that he might be, or is, doing something wrong. He is judging everything now, “this is good, that is bad” sort of thing. He is now also feeling guilty - about just about everything! All this worrying is just because he doesn’t know what is causing all of his suffering? This worry – this fear, judgment, and guilt now colors everything. It is not a very pretty picture. Certainly no Rainbow!

Sometimes Herby feels so hopeless and lost, he just flops over, white softest side up, spread eagled, on his lily pad, feeling so very vulnerable.  At these times he is questioning everything and it feels like there is nothing and no one to believe in anymore.

Don’t you feel it’s about time for the energy of this story and Herby’s Froggie World to change?

One day, Herby is feeling so lowdown, prayers don’t help, neither does thinking and thinking! He is feeling very, very frustrated and angry with himself and everything in general! It is a very, very dark Froggie World.

Suddenly, Herby actually begins to cry!

What? Oh my! Did you ever hear of a froggie crying, and crying real tears at that?

Herby cries and cries and cries. He can’t stop crying. He cries for hours, for days, for weeks on end. He can barely even think anymore, and seldom can he stop crying long enough to even say his prayers. Oh, what a bad bad froggie he thinks he is! He must be the very worst froggie in the world!  He doesn’t know how to believe in anything anymore. 

One day it starts raining! Herby Froggie’s tears are now making rain! Herby just cries and cries more, and it rains and rains more and more! Soon, Herby thinks the whole world is just flooded with tears and sadness. And, of course, soon everything starts flooding.

Yes, even the pond his long forgotten lily pad is resting upon begins to flood, and the pond waters are rising higher and higher! Soon the lily pad is rocking, getting very wet, and the water is beginning to cover froggie’s feet, and then even rises up to his froggie leggies. This gets Herby Froggie’s attention!

“What’s this?” cries Herby Froggie!

“This is definitely not comfortable!”

Yet he has a deep down feeling this is something vaguely familiar!! But he can’t think of what this is. So he just cries even harder.

“I’m SO afraid of this! I don’t know what this is or what is happening!”

“This must be something really, really bad! This must be just more punishment and suffering for me! I am such a Bad Froggie!”

Herby is by now crying so hard he can barely breathe. So he just has to stop and catch his breath and take in a deep breath! Several deep breaths in fact! Suddenly he feels strong motion! He is really rocking now!

“Oh, my Froggod! Now what’s happening?” cries Herby!

He looks down and sees his lily pad for the first time in a long, long, very long time. The lily pad is rocking on the rising moving waters! For a brief moment, Herby feels a great comfort in this rocking and feeling the moving warm waters touching him, washing over his feet and leggies. But then, his fears take over again, and he is SO AFRAID. This is a very bad storm for Herby! He even begins to think maybe a great earthquake is happening and a tsunami wave is coming and will wipe him away! Oh my, oh my! Froggod is punishing him Big Time now! How helpless and powerless can you get?

But now, let’s take a moment and observe what is actually happening.  Herby doesn’t know what he believes in anymore.  This makes Herby feel desolate and he cries.  The more Herby cries, the harder it rains. The harder it rains, the higher the pond is rising. The higher the pond is rising, the more the lily pad is floating and rocking Herby and the wetter Herby is getting. Also, the higher the lily pad rises, the less dense his tall water plants are becoming, and it appears more Light is beginning to enter Froggie’s World!

Are all Herby’s tears really so bad?

Is all this rain and water really so bad? Especially for a Froggie?

But, does Herby still know he is a Froggie?

Does he remember what The Light is, what it means?





Can you feel it? The change happening? Our Herby is morphing! His life is expanding beyond anything it ever was! What of the solitude, the seeming passiveness of Herby’s life, with all the thinking and thinking, then the weeping, the anger, feeling lost and desolate, the fear, and the rising waters?  What is the meaning of these? 

All these have been the outer manifestation of his inner transformation process.  All the grieving and weeping have been melting down the barriers restraining the benevolent feminine nurturing whole aspect of life,  allowing this natural energy to meld at last with the benevolent masculine individualizing aspect of life, our personal awareness of Self as Natural Source, within him. Thus, his own natural polarity energies are coming together in a whole new, beautiful way – like an inner marriage and he is dissolving all his inner conflicts and becoming a self nurturing, self aware, self contained, self reliant, self balancing Being in the form of a Froggie!  

Can you imagine realizing you are the Source of yourself and creator of yourself and your life?  That you are also God and that God is also you – and this is the same for everyone and everything else in life? 

So, now, let’s observe Herby on his lily pad as it continues to rise and his world begins brightening and lightening up, while these melded energies combine to nurture and co-create his world – a process which is actually birthing something new!  For as we shall see, Herby is re-inventing Herby and unifying all his inner conflicts! As his tears flow, as the waters rise and cleanse and purify, as his world gently rocks and the waters soothe him, barriers are crumbling and his world is rebalancing on a new deeper foundation!  But he doesn’t know this yet.

As Herby’s lily pad rises higher, the stem of the pad is stretching to its limit; it is no longer swinging about so freely and Herby is feeling more tension, yet an uncommon sense of stability also. Rising even still higher upon his lily pad, his whole world is becoming calmer, lighter and brighter, and his tears are drying up. The rain is even becoming gentle now - slowing to a mere sprinkling. Only tips of his tall green plants are now showing atop the waters of the pond. His Froggie World seems larger, richer, far bigger than before.

As Herby raises his head higher to peer at the world around him, he begins noticing some twinkling lights sparkling on the waters surrounding him!

Then, as he looks up higher, Herby sees something else – a marvelous something else! Something so BIG and so BEAUTIFUL he can barely believe his eyes! He is speechless, thoughtless, tearless! He isn’t even feeling anything at all! He isn’t even thinking or praying about anything at all! He just IS. And not the least bit concerned about what he IS or does. Or isn’t!

He sees colors!

He sees a RAINBOW !

He raises his head and opens his eyes wider.

He feels a glow all about! He even feels HE is glowing!

It even looks as if the Rainbow is moving closer!

“Oh My… This must be some kind of Miracle!” yells Froggie, all excited beyond reason.

Suddenly the stem of the lily pad shutters…and breaks! The lily pad begins floating freely, at first tilting a bit to one side then another! Herby is so stunned at this moment he once again, ever so briefly, feels SO AFRAID! In his fear, he stutters, “Am I croak…croak…croak….CROAKING?” In shock, Herby rolls over, and flops belly up!

In another instant, he wonders, “What IS Happening?”

The Magic almost dissipates in this instant! Oh My!

But now, remember, the rainbow is moving closer! And as this Rainbow moves closer, the sun begins to shine through a large opening in the cloudy, shadowy sky! The World is transforming!

The lily pad is still delicately balancing itself on the waters and everything else is completely forgotten! Herby is laughing and giggling and kicking his feeties - he suddenly sees and feels Everything In the Light!  Such JOY! He sees everything now In such Beautiful Light and such richness of color! Even the lapping waters of the pond and the gentle sprinkles of rain touching upon the surface of the pond sound like beautiful music harmonizing, melding everything together somewhere deep inside Herby!

Herby is completely enthralled in This One Moment, simply silently and absentmindedly absorbing everything about it!  Feeling his JOY!

And Herby slips right off his lily pad into the water!

He instinctively begins thrashing about at first, then feels the gentle warmth wrapping itself all around him and just stops moving for a moment. Now he sees the waters shimmering with colors! Now he realizes he is meeting up with the Rainbow and then, is actually Inside the Rainbow!

Wow! Herby feels all twinkly and shimmery inside. He feels he is glowing brightly! And the sun is shining so brightly! He is just full of bubbles of JOY! He is so excited, he just naturally begins swimming and swimming, stretching those lovely Herby Froggie leggies of his in pure Froggiejoy!

Do you think our little story is over?

Oh no, this is not just your standard, ordinary mystical enlightenment story where enlightenment happens and then all returns to normal with a gorgeous sunset in the picture, and then it’s chop wood, carry water, chop wood, carry water!

And, this is definitely not a fairy tale!

So, THIS story is not over…Herby has only just begun…just begun WHAT, did you ask?

HAVE YOU KISSED & HUGGED YOUR INNER FROGGIE TODAY?






Herby is swimming all around the pond often feeling like he is in another world, and even has a new life, even if he still just looks like the same old frog. Herby is still the same Herby he knows and has always known, and his Froggie World in the pond doesn’t really look all THAT different!

There is a real difference inside of Herby, though. Not only does Herby feel an inner glow most all the time, he is feeling as if he might be in a beautiful bubble - a rainbow hued bubble! Sometimes he actually feels like he is floating, instead of swimming, yet he still feels the warm waters of the pond wrapping around his Froggie skin just like any Froggie would and he can do the Froggie Kick just as good as ever!

What is this bubble? Is it just a temporary fragile bubble of joy which might burst at any moment? You know the feeling? A “high” which simply cannot last?

As a little time goes by, Herby begins to realize this bubble is a part of him and goes wherever he goes. He begins to feel more familiar with it and what it is. It’s an energy around him, and within him!  A part of his inner glow, but also more than this! It’s some kind of “aura” that radiates from inside of him and shimmers all around him. He also begins to notice this bubble is very alive and responsive to him and what he is thinking and doing!

Whenever he begins to think unhappy or unkind thoughts, or do anything he isn’t really enjoying, his glow seems to dim, his bubble shrinks, and he doesn’t feel his bubble is so strong, and it might break at any moment! Sometimes whenever he worries about this, it seems the bubble begins to break up and things are feeling heavier and getting darker! And he feels all confused!

But, whenever he thinks his own personal happy thoughts, especially about himself, and especially whenever he is doing what he loves most, not only does his glow feel warmer and brighter, his bubble seems to expand and feel richer, deeper and stronger than ever!  Herby is beginning to believe in himself!  Herby begins to understand his bubble “aura” is his belief and trust in himself and what he is.  He is even beginning to be able to take his inner glow and lovely rainbow bubble for granted. He is responding to his own trust in himself and belief in who he is as much as these energies are responding to him and what he is doing! Sometimes he feels he’s actually creating his life and his world around this faith and trust in himself,  and staying centered within these is becoming easier and easier!

Herby is also swimming more and more these days, enjoying simply being the Herby Froggie he is! As Herby takes his daily swims around and about the pond of Froggie World, he enjoys meeting up with and visiting with other frogs in what he now calls the Froggie Rainbow Pond. Some are old friends, frogs he has known before, and some are new friends he is making, ones he hasn’t ever seen before. There definitely seems to be an excitement everywhere he goes which wasn’t there so long ago! He is also discovering that the frogs he is most interested in and who are most interested in him also have a glow about them! He is slowly beginning to feel they have Rainbow Bubbles, too! He is becoming more sensitive all the time to feeling these bubbles whenever his bubble and theirs gently touch each other as they get close enough to visit! There is a feeling of warmth, a feeling of kindness, even a growing feeling of love and joy which seems to grow stronger every day. These experiences even seem to expand his own bubble and shining glow whenever he meets up with these froggies! His visits with these other froggies are making his own inner glow and Rainbow Bubble stronger!

Herby is also noticing there are other little islands of thick, tall plants here and there in the pond – places which feel isolated and heavy to him. He doesn’t go near them, but sometimes wonders if these are other frogs sitting on a lily pad athinking and athinking, maybe even crying and crying, just as he once did? The thought of this sometimes gives him mixed feelings. Sometimes he wants to feel sad about them, yet, in a surprising way, seeing these little islands of tall grass also makes him feel stronger and happy inside, because he somehow realizes that someday more frogs will emerge from their self-created isolated cocoons and be floating around in their own Rainbow Bubbles, shinning with their own inner glows! It’s not that he actually avoids these areas, it’s that he respects what these frogs are doing and feels no need to interfere or even help them or tell them how to do what they are doing. He knows each of them will do very well all by themselves! Just as he did.

Sometimes Herby shares some of his past experiences with other Rainbow Bubble Froggies, and they share some of their past and current experiences with him! This makes them all feel safer, stronger, and actually glow more brightly! It also makes their Rainbow Energy Bubbles jump around in joy and excitement to see how everything has changed since those times! But most of all, all the Rainbow Froggies enjoy just being together and talking about what makes them feel happy and what they love doing the most. Everybody loves to do something different; everybody has a different idea about everything they talk about! Sometimes they even interrupt each other while talking because they get so excited talking about it all! Nobody really minds! Everybody feels important!

Everyone’s Rainbow Bubbles shine with different unique patterns of colors, especially whenever they talk about what each loves most! Each one is so beautiful and changes it’s own light color patterns - it’s like a Game of Musical Bouncing Colors - ever-changing shimmering Colors! This vibrant diversity makes their daily lives very colorful and interesting! Everyone can do something very special, which no one else can do just the same way!

Every once in awhile Herby meets up with froggies whose inner glow is very dim, and who don’t seem to have any Rainbow Bubble around them. These froggies are often judging themselves and others. In fact they seem quite comfortable judging just about everything quite strongly! Sometimes they are very angry and want to change the world so that all others think and act just like they do! Sometimes it’s a real temptation to join in with them, in the “Misery Loves Company” group meetings and activities, maybe just to tell them what they are doing and why they ought to change their ways! But Herby and his best friends don’t choose to do this, they just aren’t all that much interested in being just like those froggies anymore, even if some of them are the biggest frogs and fastest swimmers, and have the biggest lily pads and brightest, fullest lotus blossoms in the pond!

As more Froggie Time goes by, and Herby swims in the colorful waters of Rainbow Pond, he realizes that the more all the Rainbow Froggies share and have fun in their Rainbow Bubbles together, admiring each other’s special glow and rainbow colors, the more patient they are all becoming with these seemingly stronger frogs, because they know they are just part of the diversity of the Froggie World - even when sometimes some of these other dimbulb frogs are mean to the Rainbow Bubble Froggies for being so very different from them! They just don't understand why the Rainbow Bubble Froggies have to be the way they are!

The Rainbow Bubble Froggies are beginning to see that what is most important for each of them to do is to shine as brightly and strongly as possible, to keep shining, and to have fun touching, growing and expanding their Rainbow Bubbles! In this way they see they are perpetually creating the Rainbow Pond and are adding more and more beautiful colors and light to this world everyday! This world seems to be getting brighter and stronger all the time! It’s becoming more and more fun and worthwhile just to come up with new ways to shine and new ways to encourage and inspire the other Rainbow Bubble Froggies to shine and radiate their glows! All together, they make quite an inspiring sight to behold, especially on a dark night, when they even look a lot like colorful twinkling stars in the sky as they shine in their Rainbow Energy Bubbles!

Give your inner Froggie a Big Hug Today!

© Jaiann Machell – 2005 - All Rights Reserved